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Light hearted - who would you like a special place in hell reserved for?

271 replies

KimberleyClark · 28/11/2022 23:39

For me it’s people who drape their hair over the back of their plane seat. Takes obliviousness to other people to a whole new level.

OP posts:
RaraRachael · 30/11/2022 11:24

My mother - but she's probably there already 😀

sashh · 30/11/2022 11:37

RedLeggedChuff · 30/11/2022 10:26

Would you please come and work at my daughter's school? She's had this since primary - sitting next to / being partnered with the naughty boys to model good behaviour / help them; being sat boy-girl as a whole class because the boys won't stop messing, and more recently being put in the group with the inexperienced, wet lettuce of a teacher because the actual useful, experienced staff are all working with the loud disruptive kids. Outstanding secondary, by the way. Be a bright, quiet girl and watch your education being sidelined....

On one of my PGCE placements I moved all the girls so they were sitting together, not spread out.

On my other placement there were only boys in the two GCSE classes I taught.

It's talked about on teaching forums as a behaviour management technique.

It's been discussed on here before.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3351598-Well-behaved-girls-socialising-challenging-boys-at-primary-school

Balloonsarethebest · 30/11/2022 11:42

People who parked in disabled spots without a badge.

People who throw rubbish out of their car.

People who leave those silver gas cannisters everywhere.

People who say Pacific instead of specific, or generally instead of genuinely 😡😡😡

Bog · 30/11/2022 11:48

My wife's birth mother.
My wife died in the summer...she didn't care at all and still doesn't. However my wife wanted her to make up with her other estranged daughter and now I see them playing happy families again with the daughters child and her other grandchild is now the ignored one. It's passed on and I hate her for not bothering..just wanted to know how my wife died.

5128gap · 30/11/2022 11:53

People who are nasty and spiteful to and about others, with no provocation and about things that don't effect them in the least.
And special teams of imps to prod them with pitch forks if they also use the phrase "Well I'm entitled to my opinion".

MostTacticalNameChange · 30/11/2022 12:37

The spatially unaware. I do country walks and trails a lot (so often single track), often alone, and what always happens to me is i see a family/couple etc. stopped up ahead, having a drink/rest or something then as soon as I draw level, they set off again, so we're now walking on top of each other. If i stop, i always have a quick glance behind before setting off and if someone is there, let them pass and get ahead. Like joining traffic! It makes me feel like i've crept up on them and am trying to join them 😂Awkward bit of small talk and shuffling then i'm forced to either stop myself or do a speed walk to get ahead and look like a waddling duck. Might give in one day and just join someone's family outing.

Be aware of your surroundings! I try to stomp up like an elephant to let them know i'm there but doesn't always work!

lovelypidgeon · 30/11/2022 12:37

People who have been lucky enough not to face the struggles (health/financial/personal etc) that others are going through but talk as though the reason they've not had these issues is their superior planning/parenting skills and offer unsolicited advice on this basis. Eg- Parents of autistic children just need to be stricter to avoid meltdowns/I don't have takeaways and I own a 6 bed house so if poor people want to buy their own house they just need to stop buying takeaways etc

People who park badly/illegally outside school to avoid having to walk a little bit further. I can't believe that they ALL have mobility problems/DC with additional needs etc and it makes it really dangerous for other drivers and pedestrians who have to try to manoeuvre around them.

WalkingOnTheCracks · 30/11/2022 12:38

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 29/11/2022 16:40

Surely the first person to the bar should be served first wether they’re a regular or not? Can’t stand the whole parochial “this is a local pub for local people attitude”

Quite.

Also, no, you don't always sit here. We can tell, because at the moment I'm sitting here. What? Sorry - I don't see why knowing the guvnor's name and having your own tankard behind the bar entitles you to evict another customer from a seat. But - as you've brought it up - having your own inscribed tankard behind the bad and, what's worse, referring to it as a 'tankard' at all, is all sorts of naff, and I knew we were in trouble when you came in and hailed the barman with a cheery 'Good morrow, mein host!' Actually, I am going to let you have this barstool, and I'm going to sit just over there where I can see and hear you, because I now consider you the evening's entertainment. Nice tweed waistcoat, by the way.

MostTacticalNameChange · 30/11/2022 12:40

WalkingOnTheCracks · 30/11/2022 12:38

Quite.

Also, no, you don't always sit here. We can tell, because at the moment I'm sitting here. What? Sorry - I don't see why knowing the guvnor's name and having your own tankard behind the bar entitles you to evict another customer from a seat. But - as you've brought it up - having your own inscribed tankard behind the bad and, what's worse, referring to it as a 'tankard' at all, is all sorts of naff, and I knew we were in trouble when you came in and hailed the barman with a cheery 'Good morrow, mein host!' Actually, I am going to let you have this barstool, and I'm going to sit just over there where I can see and hear you, because I now consider you the evening's entertainment. Nice tweed waistcoat, by the way.

Ah, I see you've met Big Terence. He assures me he drives better after a few pints.

fairydustt · 30/11/2022 13:11

Dilbertian · 28/11/2022 23:56

Hairspreaders. It's like the hair version of manspreading. They are long-haired people who do not tie their hair back when swimming. Or who flip their hair around in crowded places, like on a busy train. Urgh. Keep your own hair in your own personal space - I do not want it in mine.

I was on a plane recently and the woman in front of me started tying up her really long hair and the hair was going over the back of her chair into my space!! 😒

MorrisZapp · 30/11/2022 13:27

Pebbledashery · 29/11/2022 15:24

Girls who put an entire face on makeup on whilst on the train. Argh. Just stop it.

I don't usually wear makeup but I have a meeting in London and I want to look a smart for it. I'm planning to put my makeup on towards the end of the journey. (I have very dry skin, can only use sheer/cream formulas, my makeup won't survive a commute and long train journey).

Will people wish me incinerated, and why?

HeatwaveToNightshade · 30/11/2022 13:37

@MorrisZapp it wouldn't bother me!! I'd be glancing your way for some tips😁

TigerRag · 30/11/2022 13:41

Companies who in 2022 don't have online forms and still insist on paper forms

Piglet89 · 30/11/2022 13:44

People who lean with their back on the central pole in tube carriages, thereby preventing anyone else from holding onto the pole.

The pole is a communal resource.

WalkingOnTheCracks · 30/11/2022 13:56

Piglet89 · 30/11/2022 13:44

People who lean with their back on the central pole in tube carriages, thereby preventing anyone else from holding onto the pole.

The pole is a communal resource.

That's a brilliantly specific humph. Most admirable.

While I'm here....people who insist - at length and citing completely unconvincing reasons - that there's a right and a wrong way to put a toilet roll on an holder.

My feeling here is that life is too short, but an eternity in the fires of hell is not long enough.

Trez1510 · 30/11/2022 17:02

While I'm here....people who insist - at length and citing completely unconvincing reasons - that there's a right and a wrong way to put a toilet roll on an holder.

I've read the entire thread, and was congratulating myself for escaping the entire imps/pitchforks deal. Now, though ..... 😧

sashh · 01/12/2022 04:10

Trez1510 · 30/11/2022 17:02

While I'm here....people who insist - at length and citing completely unconvincing reasons - that there's a right and a wrong way to put a toilet roll on an holder.

I've read the entire thread, and was congratulating myself for escaping the entire imps/pitchforks deal. Now, though ..... 😧

Says someone who has never used an outside toilet.

Then you have to hang it one way or you risk wiping your arse with spiders.

QuizzlyBears · 01/12/2022 04:29

People have mixed feelings about this one, but I am very clear on it - there is a special place in hell reserved for people who redline their aeroplane seats.

Cattenberg · 02/12/2022 15:20

sashh · 01/12/2022 04:10

Says someone who has never used an outside toilet.

Then you have to hang it one way or you risk wiping your arse with spiders.

Which way?

Flippppppp · 02/12/2022 21:16

People at musicals (especially West End ones that cost a fortune) who sing along to allllll the songs. I did not pay £100s to listen to your out of tune warbling. In the finale, when everyone’s on their feet, fair enough. Otherwise, pipe down!

Flippppppp · 02/12/2022 21:27

uncomplicatedish · 29/11/2022 07:17

People who refuse to reverse in a lane when their passing place is just behind them and mine is round a corner 100m back.

People who refuse to reverse on road with parked cars when it's my right of way e.g. I've committed and am 2/3 down and they think it's fine to carry on even though they see me coming and expect me to reverse. No.

People who is stead of waiting for me to reverse by the parked cards mount pavement instead and almost knock over pedestrians.

Oooh the refusing to reverse! When I was very very heavily pregnant with twins this happened to me. Ordinarily I would have got cross but still reversed. I got hormonal deepest, darkest red mist. The other driver got out of his car and started effing and blinding at me, hoping - I assume- to intimidate me, even though he was two cars in while I was about thirty cars in. I literally can’t really remember what happened but next thing I knew, I too was out of the car (which cannot have happened easily or gracefully) shrieking back like a huge insane hippo. At the sight of my huge froth-mouthed form, he hurried back into his car and reversed 😂😂

Flippppppp · 02/12/2022 21:38

HectorPlasm · 29/11/2022 10:44

The chiselling bastard who decided that you needed to added your reg number to car park tickets so you can no longer pass the unused portion to others. Just imagine what a petty minded anti-social boring little prick you need to be to think this up.

😂😂😂😂 Yes!!!

MichelleScarn · 02/12/2022 21:39

@Flippppppp yes! Happened when I went to see Les Mis, child in audience loudly sang along to Castle on a cloud, while parents smiled indulgently....

Flippppppp · 02/12/2022 21:42

MichelleScarn · 02/12/2022 21:39

@Flippppppp yes! Happened when I went to see Les Mis, child in audience loudly sang along to Castle on a cloud, while parents smiled indulgently....

Awful. Just awful. I took my kids to Wicked recently and grown adults did it. Blew my mind. Just no.

VestaTilley · 02/12/2022 21:44

Susie Green and her ilk.

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